Your guide to Free Comic Book Day 2018 in Nashville, Clarksville and Middle Tennessee

CLOSE It's here again. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, and plenty of stores around Nashville and Middle Tennessee are prepped and ready to help you celebrate and provide you with a story or two. Here's where to go to get your hands on some free comics, as well as what you should be expecting and what other sort of sales stores may be having.

Free Comic Book Day is an annual event founded on the belief that for every person out there, there's a comic book that they'll love. Every first Saturday in May, the industry comes together to give away free comics and encourage fans, both old and new, to flock to the best place in the comic book community: local comic shops.

Goodwill of Middle Tennessee is closing its 5412 Charlotte Pike store and is having a half-off-everything sale in that store starting Saturday and running through May 12, when prices drop to 75 percent off until closing day. giveit2gw.org

Goodwill officials announced that they will close the 5412 Charlotte Pike store in mid-May.

Goodwill to close Charlotte Pike store in mid-May

Goodwill officials announced that they will close the 5412 Charlotte Pike store in mid-May. Spokesman Chris Fletcher said the decision was made as part of the organization's move to a decentralized donation process, a key element in a three-year restructuring plan for Goodwill.

Ever since I started this "Under $10 Lunch" series, I have wanted to feature the new Cafe at Thistle Farms - mainly because I heard that the food was good and because I so admire its mission of helping women with addiction and other struggles make new lives for themselves.

Ross, who also owns the property at 5303 Charlotte Ave. with his wife Elisabeth, says Twilight Tavern will offer pub fare and an appealing emphasis on craft beer and spirits. He hopes to open this summer.

Twilight Tavern to Replace Bajo Sexto on Charlotte

Photo: Metro Assessor of Property A co-owner of the long-running Broadway Brewhouse bars, among other food-and-drink businesses, is planning to open a restaurant in the West Nashville space formerly held by Bajo Sexto Taco Lounge. The Sylvan Park spot will be called Twilight Tavern and will offer a neighborhood bar feel, owner Hardy Ross tells the Scene's sister publication, Nashville Post.

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